skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just for work. I fully work from home and could live in a bigger place in the country. I just want to live where there's culture - access to restaurants, nightlife, etc etc.
It's not dramatic, it's insane behavior to force yourself into everyones feed
It is almost certainly half as much power in the RMS sense, not absolute.
Highlights from the Comments on "The Origin of Woke"
lol, my bad… I copied and then posted the wrong link.

Is it insane that there are 2 different videos of people breaking their fingers with cyber trucks though?

Can’t edit but this the right one:

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/OTrK_7vUGiY
What do you oppose with PWM, irregular subpixel displays? I'm curious why do you think these new improved displays are inferior to the LCDs of the past?
> They're just another app full of memes.
That meme app got banned from US military bases.

> TikTok hasn't actually done anything to merit that mistrust.
Between dumping all the info to China and having an excellent exploit window on millions of phones, don't see why we should trust them ?
They should add led lights and ultrasonic vibration to the cup for a futuristic cyber punk style presentation.
Yup, I used to do side stuff but now I mostly tinker with servos, 3d printing, and mechanic work on my car. I can only ingest so much of the same shit
Max line length can be aggregated by using a 1-2-3 element type, for example, using scalar, 2-tuple and 3-tuple:

open length |
{ open left length, open right length } |
{ open left length, max contained line, open right length }

The cases are obvious depending on the number of newlines in the substring (think of newlines as the commas in the tuples :)

0 newlines: open length
1 newline: { open left length, open right length }
2+ newlines: { open left length, max contained line, open right length }

Merging (summing) two maxline objects is also fairly obvious. There are 3*3 cases: contract (add) adjacent open counts, max with any contained line counts, preserve left and right open lengths.

The maxline ops are (obviously) non-commutative, but are associative, so you can apply them in any grouping, left-to-right, right-to-left, and even in parallel if you feel the need.

At the root of the tree, the left and right open lengths become actual lines (beginning and end of buffer are virtual line delimiters), so to get the global maximum line length, just max the 1, 2, or 3 values in the root maxline summary.

I like to separate newlines from other substrings as leaves in the tree. So the leaf maxlines are just:

substring: length
newline: {0,0}

Then sum as given above across any number of child nodes.

The Zed blog claims to have such a thing, but didn't explain it. Apologies if it's in one of the repos. I didn't check.
I'd rather see studios make 100 games that each cost $2 million to make than one $200 million game.
iPad is better for consuming content and reading pdfs. That’s what I use it for, at any rate. There is no better device to plop atop my stationary bike while I pedal to watch shows, and there is arguably no better device to read scientific papers. And it lasts (and receives updates!) for years and years, thus becoming “inexpensive” over time even though the initial outlay is without a doubt eye watering.
My time-of-use rate plan for PG&E (EV2-A) drops to its cheapest price at 12am–I'm guessing that's the cause of the spike. I start my car charging at 12:05am. I wish they offered an even more dynamic rate plan.
Why does a tablet have a camera bump!? Just take out the camera. And let me run VSCode and a terminal.
According to this [0] the number of warheads as of 2020 is 3750 which does kind of qualify as "thousands upon thousands".

Edit: I don't think it matters if "only" 400 are land-based, does it? it's still "thousands".

[0] https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Fact-Sheet_...
I use my M1 iPad Pro for graphics work (from simple sketches to full illustrations), and for making music with multi-track recording apps. I don't bother with the keyboard since little of my input is text-oriented.
Lofts evolved from old factory and warehouses. This was in an era before air conditioning and fluorescent lighting. You needed lots of windows to light factories and lots of vertical space for convection cooling to work. Factories were at the edge of town and that town grew into a city. Eventually, the edge was closer to the center than the suburbs. And a new generation wanted to be city dwellers.

Cheap lofts were peak re-urbanization, but now they are some of the most in demand housing because of the large space and natural lighting.
On MacOS, your phone automatically appears in the Wi-Fi menu and clicking it immediately starts a Personal Hotspot on the phone and connects to it. Disconnecting from it also stops the Hotspot.
By not having elevators? How does that make any sense for any mid-rise or higher?
In Orson Scott Card's "Enders Game" as well.
Children had been bred and trained to be tactical
so Ender's siblings applied their talents locally
to manipulate geopolitics as a side story.
> built for consultancy tasks first

Consultancies (MBB) tend to cheap out and give Thinkbooks and Product teams tend to get a bottom spec MacBook at work.
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> is it REALLY half the power use of all times (so we'll get double the battery life)

I'm not sure what you mean by "of all times" but half the battery usage of the processor definitely doesn't translate into double the battery life since the processor is not the only thing consuming power.
I was just about to post the same information. Sad to see the concept never caught on. I really liked using Debugger Canvas on VS2010 even if it was somewhat buggy.
What do people even use iPads for?
My read on the absurd number of Macbook M3 SKUs was that they had yield issues.
I'm going to. Every digital thing I do outside of my job happens on an iPad Pro and I absolutely love it. I make music in Logic Pro on an M1 iPad Pro - it's hard to overstate how amazing it is to be able to carry around an entire recording studio in such a tactile form factor. I can't get on with desktop DAWs at all.
The hourly wages in Switzerland are at least 2x those in Japan, and Swiss people generally don't like working outside normal working hours, so getting 10x workers at night is not very feasible.
A YouTuber calls thought emporium tried out the whiskey method

And yes, ultrasonic cavitation will break apart the grounds very thoroughly. Think a jewelry or denture cleaner.
Not for me, but it is for some people. My current issue is more esophageal, my throat gets inflamed with too much acid then it feels like I have food stuck and can’t swallow it. Other people have stomach issues, ulcers, etc. but still want to enjoy coffee, so I think there’s plenty of reasons for cold brew served hot to exist.
I ordered Onyx Boox Tab X – seems to be the only real option out there. It has Android, so it's possible to use your favorite reader/app on it (I'm using ReadCube Papers). Can't wait to try it.
Would you mind going into more details about what you see as the OLED downsides? Is it just Apple’s variant, or the broader product category?
I personally would consider 10-40 person teams to potentially qualify as AA. Often we also outsource code/art so the team size can sometimes be misleading.

I suppose I would go by the budget. Maybe 5-10million+ IMO. It also kind of depends how they spend the money.

EDIT : After some further reflection, From personal experience I'd consider a AA game one where everyone on the dev team knows each other fairly well. AAA games get so large that you don't end up knowing everyone super well by the end of the project.
If the iPad could run Mac apps when docked to Magic Keyboard like the Mac can run iPad apps then there may be a worthwhile middle ground that mostly achieves what people want.

The multitasking will still be poor but perhaps Apple can do something about that when in docked mode.

That said, development likely remains a non-starter given the lack of unix tooling.
To be fair, the increasing lack of choice in both hardware and software/operating system is why I left the Apple ecosystem 5 years ago. I have no complaints now; tons of vendors and operating systems to choose from. Well, hardware vendors anyway.
It’s all marketing toward people who aspire to be these creative types. Very, few people actually need it but it feels good when the iPad Air is missing a few key features that push you to the Pro.

More practically, it should help with battery life. My understanding is energy usage scales non-linearly with demand. A more powerful chip running at 10% may be more battery efficient than a less powerful chip running at 20%
When I was in elementary we had a program where you could read a book and then take a test on that book. If you passed the test you would get a prize from snacks to coupons at restaurants. There were no limits and the book choice was large.

I ravenously read through books at first and would take the test asap. I was gaming the system, but through this I found books I became enthralled with. This was the foundation of my love for reading.

Not sure what my point was, but I wonder if any programs like that exist anymore.
Ah so the way Intel advertises their chips. Got it.
Sad to see no iPad mini. That one’s my favourite. Would be cool to have it with pro motion.
Maybe you're not saying what you mean.

What limits do you place on "self determination", as you define it?

And I'd point out that modern France and Germany are much less religious and more religiously diverse than Israel. (Even including Israeli Muslims)

But yes, historically states with high religiosity and state-entwined religions tend to be murderous: it's always a good reason for a just war.
Does one get updates for lifetime on Mac version?
I think the probability of that is lower than my probability of death on my motorcycle. So they're probably going to be fine. Everything is fine until it's not.

The risk tradeoffs we disallow are ones where you need to be 1σ+ to be making the tradeoff because the crucial functionality there we provide is legibility in the marketplace.
There is a company[0] here in rural Virginia buying up huge swaths of land (100-500+ acres) and filling them up with solar panels. From an energy perspective, it's wonderful. On the other hand, it is quite literally changing the views of our precious Blue Ridge Mountains from hills and mountains with seas of green pasture to rows of solar panels as far as the eye can see.

0. https://energix-group.com/
Wattage might not be high enough to notice a difference, but might be fun
Why spend expensive silicon real estate on hardware virtualization rather than AI with Neural Engine?

Why make a Macbook-aesthetic Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro?

Why was iOS implemented as a subsystem of macOS?

> They don't want to make a sub-par laptop out of an industry-leading tablet

Fortunately for healthy competition, Microsoft/HP/Dell/Lenovo don't have that constraint for their new Arm devices, based on M3-competitive Qualcomm SoC from former Apple Silicon talent.
Data breach exposes UK military personnel's payroll information
> The work from home "revolution" only touches a very thin layer of people, most people with jobs still need to show up physically every day.

I also think that it's a mistake to think that only jobs drives urbanization. Don't get me wrong, it's a huge factor, probably the biggest, but it's not the only reason.

Most of my peers now work full time remote, but they nearly all still live major metros. Some have moved from one metro to another. Only very few have left for more suburban or rural settings, and in those cases the motivation has almost always been reducing cost of living.

A lot of people live in cities simply because they want to.
The loan is secured by the house, but it is against your income (try to get anything but a reverse mortgage on a owned outright home when you have no income).

What is strange about the US is that the government takes on the interest rate risk for 30 year fixed uncallable loans since the Great Depression. This is an intentional subsidy of housing (prices or availability, whichever you want to allocate it to) because US policy for decades has been that home ownership by citizens is a good to be worked toward.

In counties where this doesn't exist, you should expect to see the housing market warm back up (and prices drop) when the ARMs start resetting, and that's really all they have.

Interest Rate Risk basically comes about from the pricing changes when rates change, a $100k bond paying at 2% becomes worth less than $100k when rates rise, because people won't buy it when new bonds are paying 5%, so you have to make the effective yield become 5%. Holding to maturity can partially but not completely offset it.

https://www.fdic.gov/regulations/resources/director/technica... has some examples of how it can affect banks, especially with "mark to market" laws.
Helldivers II is one of the few games of its type that it feels good to mess around in.

Lately my friend group has been playing on mid level difficulty to grind out common and rare samples, and there's nothing funnier than cracking a joke about something and then that person hitting you with a 500 kg bomb and making your body ragdoll across the map. There's just something about messing around in it and being goofy that feels good that doesn't in, say, Vermintide or Darktide.
Hackers can steal data by messing with a computer's processor
You wouldn’t necessarily get twice the battery life. It could be less than that due to the thinner body causing more heat, a screen that utilizes more energy, etc
In the picture, it looks like they're posing with some refreshing sun-tea. Maybe they should try 4 minutes.
"This is just the way things are going. Don't you know the story about the luddites?"
Googler here. I used to hate writing design docs, even though I have several published papers. But a few years back I realized the main benefits for me:

* It empties my head of the immediate parts of the idea, letting me move on to deeper parts and more productive considerations.

* It makes flaws more obvious, especially to myself.

* It makes it easier to share these thoughts, especially with people in other offices. They usually give really good feedback.

* It gives me a much better idea of how much work is involved than if I just start coding.

* It usually points out some things I need to learn before I start coding - adjacent systems, appropriate tech choices, etc.

Yes, it's also good for promo, but a successful project is better.

I often get comments on how useful my docs are, so I think I'm onto something.
Scientists Find an 'Alphabet' in Whale Songs
The economics of traditional AAA game development just don't make sense, and the market conditions right now are just acting as a forcing function to expedite their (current) collapse. You have insanely high development costs (50-100m on the low end to 200m+ on the high end) where the _only_ opportunity for return is to release a hit or polish the game to a hit (read, more $$$), but even being able to predict what will or won't be a hit is near impossible. So you have high burn on teams for long dev cycles (2-3 years+) that can't even really time the market because of their slow releases, with audience expectations for what a title means also insanely high, and also that their are both very good free options like Fortnite and large discounted backlogs of "really good games" that you're also fighting against. You also have weird calculus now where you're fighting against your own bets on live service games — spending 100m on expanding GTAV some more is likely a better return than working on GTA6. In the email announcing this from Microsoft's own words, you can see this:

"In 2024 alone we have Starfield Shattered Space, Fallout 76 Skyline Valley, Indiana Jones and The Great Circle, and The Elder Scrolls Online’s Golden Road. "

3/4 of those titles are old games that are live services, where it's a better investment and dev cost to pump engaged players than build new audiences. It's VERY hard to beat a 5% (even more for an MS-sized deposit) return on a savings account, so closing studios that made Good Games isn't about the games at all, it's just looking at the balance sheet. Everyone always knew they were creating on borrowed time, and now that time is unfortunately up.

The solution of this is to not let private companies dictate cultural production for a nation, but the US is piss poor at arts funding and all our billionaires want to squirrel away wealth overseas rather than building libraries, museums, or cultural production funds.
Ask HN: Open-source, local Text-to-Speech (TTS) generators
Hola amigos -
I just noticed that https://coqui.ai/ is "Shutting down".

I'm building a web app (React / Django) which takes a list of affirmations & goals (in Markdown files), puts them into a database (SQlite), and uses voice synthesis to create voice audio files of the phrases. These are combined with a relaxed backing track (ffmpeg), made into playlists of 10-20 phrases (randomly sampled, or according to a theme: "mind" "body" "soul") and then play automatically in the morning & evening (cron). This allows you to persistently hear & vocalize your own goals & good vibes over time.

I had been planning to use Coqui TTS as the local text-to-speech engine, but with this cancellation, I'd love to hear from the community what is a great open-source, local text-to-speech engine?

Generally, I learn both the highest quality commercially available technology (example: ElevenLabs), and also the best open-source equivalent. Would love to hear suggestions & perspectives on this. What voice synth tools are you investing your time into learning & building with?
So you are saying that if the US audited the entire TikTok cloud stack and code, this all could have been avoided ?
Doesn't iPad come with an USB-C port nowadays? You can attach an external SD card reader.
TikTok also lied under oath about where US data is stored [1]. So I’m not sure why anyone should trust anything about them even if they are sold. Even a code and security audit would leave a lot of room for things like AI driven feeds conducting propaganda campaigns. It’s not just code or infrastructure as a point in time but also data. In the end it comes down to trust.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/06/21/tikt...
Discussion [0] (31 points, 2 hours ago, 9 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40286739
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Unfortunately I think "they share all the same apps" will not include a terminal with root access, which is what would really be needed to make iPad a general purpose computer for development

It's a shame, because it's definitely powerful enough, and the idea of traveling with just an iPad seems super interesting, but I imagine they will not extend those features to any devices besides macs
You just compared a tablet from 2011 with a phone from 2015. That's a pretty apples to oranges comparison.

How available are Lineage OSes to Android tablets from 2011?
> This is vaguely similar to how data is encoded for QR codes.

Doesn't QR use variable static encodings (alphabets)? e.g. mode 1 is numerics, mode 2 is uppercase alphanumeric, mode 3 is binary, and mode 4 is jis (japanese).
I've never ever wanted a Macbook, but I'm ok with an iPad Pro.
I remember when Dell was the first to introduce [1] these Compression Attached Memory Modules in their laptops in an attempt to move away from soldered-on RAM. Glad this is now being more widely adopted and standardized.

[1] https://www.pcworld.com/article/693366/dell-defends-its-cont...
Funny you should mention that. I've been trying to use it for a while, but the link on the Guix website to get a Hurd-based VM image is broken and I haven't been able to generate it myself.
I'd be very surprised if Apple is paying attention to anything that's happening with windows. At least as a divining rod for how to execute.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to brew the coffee in a sealed/vacuum chamber instead? Whatever machine they're using to generate "acoustic cavitation" doesn't sound cheap.
Stock in public companies is effectively equivalent to cash, so what’s the difference? Sell on vest and buy index funds or anything you want.
They're doing a horrible job. You're right that the biggest environmental impact is manufacturing and disposal. But keeping a device running longer is better than manufacturing a new one from recycled parts . The way Apple handles storage and memory means ENTIRE devices need to be replaced when a new larger SSD or a few more gigs of memory are all that's really needed to keep a device in service for a few years longer. Not to mention stuff like just being able to actually replace the keyboard in any reasonable fashion, etc.

There's really very very little reason for all the Macs at least to not have M.2 slots besides letting Apple save pennies on SSD controller costs and convincing users to spring for overpriced upgrades. Even the iPad could probably use an M.2 SSD! The Surface Pros do!
With games costing $70 now, I'm thinking it several times now before shelling out the money, specially for those AAA-valued bad/low-quality games, Game Pass or not.

Argument is still valid, since I’ve not bought AAA games for more than two years now, only indies or AA, even if I already beat them with Game Pass.
> September morning in 2020, when botanists came across more than half of the Tiehm’s buckwheat population destroyed. Federal biologists suggested the culprit was thirsty rodents, given the recent drought. They collected DNA from the root nubs like crime-scene detectives. Conservationists called it a calculated conspiracy, cataloging photos of what looked like human footprints near the unplugged plants and roots perfectly cut by the mouth of a spade. Ioneer clapped back, blaming conservationists for peddling propaganda and trying to meddle with the project.

It's easy to be very suspicious, and Australian mining companies have a terrible reputation.[0]

But the article lacks information. What were the results of the DNA tests? Where are those photos of the damage and those cut roots?

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/may/26/rio-t...
It's an awesome site and kudos on the design!

I like the focus on what your target user actually wants (that isn't addressed by existing solutions).
Of course a GPU from Nvidia is also a NPU. People are spending billions each month on Nvidia, because it's a great NPU.

The fact is that a GPU from Nvidia is a much faster NPU than a CPU from Apple.

It is marketing as you say, but it's misleading marketing, on purpose. They could have simply written "the fastest integrated NPU of any CPU" instead. This is something Apple often does on purpose, and people believe it.
Instead of waiting, build a calculator in Excel or similar that shows various options, and update the numbers now and then. You'll start to get a "feel" for your options (which include renting, owning, building, moving, etc) and you will be more comfortable acting when the time is right.

You can't perfectly time the market but you can at least notice it.
Your last example reminds me of a particularly absurd one years ago. I got asked to write a function that calculates all the subsets of a given set. The problem wasn't the question, though. It was that the person asking me this didn't even know what "yield" was in Python.
Were you gaming back in the PlayStation 2 / original Xbox days? There were a TON of AA games in that era. Most of those studios have been bought up by the big studios that peddle AAA (and in some cases, claim to peddle AAAA) garbage.
> Of all the non-metric units in use today, watt-hours has to be the worst.

Watts are SI, hours are used all over metric countries. I don't see how watt hours aren't metric?